We may as well be living in different worlds.
Today I was talking with a friend about the concept of concrete vs. abstract people, the idea that some people are more comfortable interacting with history, facts, and tangible realities while others prefer to interact with ideas that cannot be proved and systems that can't be observed. The whole thing was very neat. It seemed to exist in a comfortable binary. But as I tried this system of categorization out on the people I know and love, I realized that some people fit strongly into both categories while others did not fit into either one. In essence, even when we come up with ways to categorize people, two people who fit into the same category can be even more different than two people who fit into two opposite categories because the way we categorize people is more like a standardized descriptive language than an accurate way to organize humanity. As I've observed people, the reality seems to be t...